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Denmark Confirms Trump-Greenland Deal Would Boost Arctic Security

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

A top Danish official said on Sept. 19 that an agreement announced by U.S. President Donald Trump for the United States to handle security for Greenland would lead to a better outcome in the region.

Both Denmark and Greenland, an autonomous island that is Danish territory, expressed hope that the deal would end any uncertainty regarding the island's security.

On Sept. 19, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that the deal between Denmark, Greenland, and the United States could be signed this week, which comes as foreign delegations head to New York City for the U.N. General Assembly.

"Next week could be a good week - for Greenland, Denmark, and the USA alike," he said in a statement posted to social media.

"A time of uncertainty will hopefully give way to a binding agreement that strengthens security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic - and thereby our shared security within NATO and Europe - while respecting the Kingdom's red lines.

"This is important at a time when the security landscape, including in the Arctic, has changed."

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a statement last week that the proposed deal "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our Kingdom and the right of the Greenlandic people to self-determination."

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen indicated that the deal would provide a favorable outcome for Greenland's residents.

"[It is] an agreement that at the same time recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the right of the Greenlandic people to self-determination," Frederiksen said in a statement.

Trump on Sept. 18 wrote on Truth Social that the United States, under the deal, would be responsible for security over Greenland, an Arctic island in the North Atlantic, on a permanent basis.

"At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America," Trump said.

As part of the deal, no U.S. adversary such as China or Russia would be able to have a base in Greenland, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Fox News interview.

Trump also wrote that the United States will now start the process of implementing a military presence around Greenland and will work with residents of the island on its development. Previous U.S. presidents were aware of Greenland's strategic importance, he added.

With his return to the White House in 2025, Trump initially called on Denmark to sell the island to the United States and said Greenland is crucial to U.S. security, which prompted criticism from European Union leaders and individual nations. At one point, Trump warned that Denmark could face a 25 percent import tax on goods unless it ceded the island to U.S. control.

Denmark and Greenland repeatedly stated that the island is not for sale, even as Trump said the island is needed to deal with military threats posed by Russia and China.

Last March, Vice President JD Vance visited American troops at the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, where he argued that Denmark was failing to protect and invest in the island amid Russian and Chinese threats.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/21/2026 - 11:40

Key Events This Week: Trump-Xi Meeting, Fed Speakers, PMIs And Durables

After an extremely busy week for central bank decisions, the week ahead brings a mix of economic data, even more central bank decisions, lots of Fed speak, and geopolitical events.

The first read of the September PMIs across the major economies on Wednesday should provide the most timely update on global growth momentum, while investors will also be watching policy decisions from the Norges Bank, Riksbank and SNB on Thursday with their hike probabilities according to futures at 62%, 21% and 5% respectively, according to Deutsche Bank.

Attention will also turn to the meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi on Thursday which will likely garner a lot of headlines. We also have opening week of the UN General Assembly debate in New York.

In the US, the focus will increasingly shift towards next Friday’s payrolls report, which will be the most important data release before the October FOMC meeting. Ahead of that, markets will be very keen to hear from a heavy schedule of Fed speakers throughout the week. These comments will frame last week’s FOMC meeting, where policymakers delivered a widely expected rate increase but signalled a more hawkish policy outlook. The updated projections showed a strong majority of officials anticipating further tightening, while Chair Warsh emphasized that the Committee still sees limited evidence that policy is meaningfully restrictive.  

Fed communication begins today with Chicago Fed President Goolsbee alongside the Chicago Fed National Activity Index. Tomorrow, investors receive the Philadelphia Fed non-manufacturing survey and the Richmond Fed manufacturing index. On the policy front, Fed Vice Chairs Williams and Jefferson are due to speak. Williams is viewed as one of the four officials who are still expected to see the Fed easing by the end of next year, so any hints on that outlook will be closely scrutinized.  

Wednesday’s main event will be the September flash PMIs. Economists expect the US manufacturing PMI to edge down to 53.6 from 53.9, while the services gauge is forecast to ease slightly to 55.9 from 56.5. Given the recent focus on AI-related investment and broader capex trends, these surveys will be watched closely for signs that business activity remains resilient. Fed Governor Barr is also due to speak. Investors will also be watching Wednesday's Treasury buyback announcement ahead of Thursday's 20-30yr operation, particularly after last month's decision to at least double the size of long-end buybacks.  

Thursday sees August new home sales and initial jobless claims. Last week continuing claims hit their lowest since January 2024. Fed speakers include Williams, Barkin, Hammack and Paulson, offering further opportunities for markets to assess where officials stand after last week’s hawkish meeting. Friday’s US durable goods report will be particularly important from a growth perspective. Our economists expect headline orders to rise by 0.6% month-on-month, with orders excluding transportation and core capital goods both expected to increase by 1.1%. The data should provide one of the clearest indications yet of whether the recent strength in business investment is being sustained. Williams and Hammack are also due to speak on Friday.  

Here is a day-by-day calendar, courtesy of DB

Day-by-day calendar of events

Monday September 21

• Data: US August Chicago Fed national activity index, China 1-yr and 5-yr loan prime rates
• Central banks: Fed's Goolsbee speaks, ECB’s Kazimir and Dolenc speak, BoC’s Macklem speaks

Tuesday September 22

• Data: US September Philadelphia Fed non-manufacturing activity, Richmond Fed manufacturing index, business conditions, UK August public finances, Eurozone September consumer confidence
• Central banks: Fed's Williams, Jefferson and Barkin speak, ECB's Nagel and Sleijpen speak
• Auctions: US 2-yr Notes ($69bn)
• Other: General debate of the UN’s General Assembly in New York (until September 28)

Wednesday September 23

• Data: US, UK, Germany, France and Eurozone September PMIs
• Central banks: Fed's Barr speaks, ECB's Vujcic, Zigman and Lane speak
• Auctions: US 2-yr FRN (reopening, $28bn), 5-yr Notes ($70bn)
• Other: OECD’s interim economic outlook

Thursday September 24

• Data: US August new home sales, September Kansas City Fed manufacturing activity, Q2 current account balance, initial jobless claims, Japan September PMIs, Germany September Ifo survey, France September consumer confidence, business confidence, EU27 August new car registrations, Canada July retail sales, Australia labour force survey
• Central banks: Central bank decisions in Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, Fed's Williams, Barkin, Hammack and Paulson speak, ECB’s economic bulletin, BoE’s Dhingra, Breeden and Lombardelli speak
• Earnings: Costco
• Auctions: US 7-yr Notes ($44bn)
• Other: US President Trump and China’s President Xi meeting in the US

Friday September 25

• Data: US August durable goods orders, September Kansas City Fed services activity, UK September GfK consumer confidence, Germany October GfK consumer confidence, Eurozone August M3
• Central banks: Fed's Williams and Hammack speak, ECB's Vujcic speaks

Looking at just the US, The key economic data release this week is the durable goods report on Friday. There are many speaking engagements with Fed officials this week, including events with Governor Barr on Wednesday, President Paulson on Thursday, President Hammack on Thursday and Friday, and President Williams on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Monday, September 21 

• There are no major economic data releases scheduled.
• 06:30 AM Chicago Fed President Goolsbee (FOMC non-voter) speaks: Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee will speak about monetary policy at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in London. Speech text and Q&A are expected. On August 28, Goolsbee said, “As I look at the inflation data, we were above the target, then it was going the wrong way, then we got a couple of months of more benign readings but that certainly doesn’t feel like we’re out of the woods.”

Tuesday, September 22 

• There are no major economic data releases scheduled. 
• 10:05 AM New York Fed President Williams speaks: New York Fed President John Williams will give keynote remarks during the New York Fed’s Treasury Market Conference. Speech text is expected. On September 2, Williams explained that “we are neither seeing second-round effects, nor unusual broadening of the effects of higher energy prices, and we are seeing well anchored inflation expectations,” though his comments came prior to September’s warmer CPI print.
• 10:20 AM Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson speaks: Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson will speak at the New York Fed’s Treasury Market Conference on discount window modernization and Treasury market functioning. Speech text is expected.
• 01:00 PM Richmond Fed President Barkin (FOMC non-voter) speaks: Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin will deliver a speech to the CFA Society Baltimore. Speech text and Q&A are expected.

Wednesday, September 23 

• 09:45 AM S&P Global US manufacturing PMI, September preliminary (consensus 53.5, last 53.9); S&P Global US services PMI, September preliminary (consensus 56.0, last 56.5)
• 10:05 AM Fed Governor Barr speaks: Fed Governor Michael Barr will speak on housing at the Chicago Fed Community Development Summit. Speech text and Q&A are expected. On September 1, Barr said, “A series of shocks—from tariffs and then the conflict in the Middle East, as well as from the rapid AI buildout—has pushed us off course. And core non-housing services inflation remains elevated.” He also added that “with inflation above target for a protracted period, there is a risk of broader price pressures taking hold, a risk I am watching closely.”

Thursday, September 24 

• 04:10 AM New York Fed President Williams speaks: New York Fed President John Williams will participate in a moderated discussion during the London Macro Policy Forum. Q&A is expected.
• 08:00 AM Richmond Fed President Barkin (FOMC non-voter) speaks: Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin will participate in a fireside chat at The Economic Club of Washington D.C. Q&A is expected.
• 08:30 AM Initial jobless claims, week ended September 19 (GS 200k, consensus 200k, last 196k): Continuing jobless claims, week ended September 12 (consensus 1,750k, last 1,730k)
• 08:50 AM Cleveland Fed President Hammack (FOMC voter) speaks: Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack will give opening remarks at the Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics Conference hosted by the Cleveland Fed and the European Central Bank. Speech text is expected. On September 4, Hammack stated, “Both the hard data and the anecdotes are telling me the same thing: policy is not restrictive. Inflation is too high—and the longer it stays above our objective, the harder it will be to bring it back down…Right now, what I’m hearing is that it is time to act.”
• 10:00 AM New home sales, August (GS +0.7%, consensus +1.3%, last -10.5%)
• 10:10 AM Philadelphia Fed President Paulson (FOMC voter) speaks: Philadelphia Fed President Anna Paulson will speak about the economic outlook at the Tenth Annual Fintech Conference hosted by the Philadelphia Fed. Speech text is expected. On August 4, Paulson explained that she sees “two plausible scenarios for how current policy is affecting inflation.” One is that “the current setting of the federal funds rate is mildly restrictive and this will bring inflation to 2 percent in an acceptable time frame” and the other is that “current policy is not restrictive enough to deliver our target rate of 2 percent inflation.”

Friday, September 25 

• 05:15 AM New York Fed President Williams speaks: New York Fed President Williams will participate in a policy panel during the 6th Monetary Economics Conference in Oxford, UK. Q&A is expected.
• 08:30 AM Durable goods orders, August preliminary (GS -1.0%, consensus -0.3%, last +1.1%); Durable goods orders ex-transportation, August preliminary (GS +0.6%, consensus +0.6%, last +0.4%); Core capital goods orders, August preliminary (GS +0.5%, consensus +0.7%, last flat); Core capital goods shipments, August preliminary (GS +0.3%, consensus +0.7%, last +1.2%): We estimate that durable goods orders declined 1.0% in the preliminary August report (month-over-month, seasonally adjusted) based on our tracking of commercial aircraft orders. We forecast a 0.5% increase in core capital goods orders—reflecting continued strength in the new orders components of manufacturing surveys in August—and a 0.3% increase in core capital goods shipments—reflecting the continued increase in core capital goods orders in recent months.
• 10:00 AM University of Michigan consumer sentiment, September final (GS 47.5, consensus 47.5, last 47.8): University of Michigan 5-10-year inflation expectations, September final (GS 3.4%, last 3.4%)
• 2:00 PM Cleveland Fed President Hammack (FOMC voter) speaks: Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack will participate in a policy panel discussion at the Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics Conference hosted by the Cleveland Fed and the European Central Bank. Q&A is expected.

Source: DB, Goldman

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/21/2026 - 10:55

Another Tanker Struck In Strait Of Hormuz As Iran's President Heads To NY

Just as the Iranian delegation of President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to fly to New York City for this week's UN General Assembly, where it's expected that the Iranians could be engaged in some sideline diplomacy with the White House, another tanker incident has unfolded off in the Persian Gulf area.

The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency is reporting Monday that an oil tanker has been "struck by an unknown projectile" while on an inbound transit route in the Strait of Hormuz.

As a result of the attack under as yet unknown circumstances two crew members suffered "minor injuries". But the vessel is reportedly in good enough shape to continue on to its next port of call.

It may have been the result of a small drone, given what appears to only be light damage or an incident not significant enough to put the vessel out of commission. Tehran is seeking to keep its leverage and 'control' over the vital energy transit waterway.

"Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO," the reiterated. 

But oil prices have slid to their lowest in 11 days amid optimism that Iran's Pezeshkian could hold talks with US officials, or else could engage in renewed diplomacy via mediators on the UN sidelines.

Trump in a Sunday Fox News interview actually indicated openness to a meeting with Pezeshkian, in a first of the war. Trump was asked about the high level UN meeting and surprisingly he went so far as to say he would "probably be open" to meeting with the Iranian president.

Still, this was all coupled with threats. In Trump's mind, there seem to be three options on the table, or as he put it--"to obliterate Iran, letting it rot economically or reach a deal."

Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade, has observed, "It seems that a degree of risk premium is being removed from oil prices on hopes that a diplomatic path to de-escalate the US-Iran war may arrive this week."

Meanwhile, a regional US commander has claimed that oil and liquefied natural gas shipments through the the Strait of Hormuz have reached their highest level in six months. This is being hailed as a sign that US naval protection and mine-clearing efforts could finally be paying off.

Iran has meanwhile over the weekend once again warned US allies in the region that they'll be considered "complicit" if the US resumes it military assault on the Islamic Republic. The Iranian military HQ stated that "any mistakes will result in painful attacks."

Iran’s President Will Enter the U.S. DURING the War for the UN Meeting

This is VERY RISKY

President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to travel to New York in the coming days to address the UN General Assembly and meet world leaders.

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Tehran further indicated Sunday that it is still awaiting Trump's response to its conditions for ending the war. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf confirmed to AFP that Iran's demands were sent to Washington via the Qataris. The US could decide to convey its counter offer while the Pezeshkian delegation is in town.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/21/2026 - 10:45

Is Trump Secretly Pushing For A Deal When Iran's President Arrives In NY

By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank

 All The News That Is Not Fit To Price

Political and geopolitical developments again stole the headlines over the weekend, with attendant market implications. Active European gasoil futures are lower this morning despite news that Ukraine had launched a “massive” drone attack against Moscow that had damaged a major refinery. Brent crude oil prices are also lower despite news that Donald Trump had cut short a trip to Camp David to return to Washington, reports that Iran had activated its highest military readiness alert amid claims that the US is preparing to resume attacks, Houthi attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, and Pentagon Pizza Report activity suggestive of something afoot. Asian stocks are broadly higher this morning and US equity index futures are pointing towards a positive open.

President Trump announced late last week that Denmark and the United States had struck a deal to provide the US with military access to the Greenland in perpetuity. Trump said that the agreement bars non-NATO countries from establishing bases and gives the US the right to refuse third party nations from holding economic interests in the territory. Aside from its strategic value adjacent to the Arctic and lying between the United States and hypothetical ballistic missile paths from Russia, various media outlets have also pointed towards Greenland’s deposits of rare earth minerals as an important factor in the US’s interest in the territory. Trump said that the US would commence the work of beefing up its military presence in Greenland immediately. 

That was far from being the only major development on transatlantic security over the weekend. Social media was teeming with speculation over Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call French party leaders and presidential hopefuls to a closed-door briefing at the Elysee regarding the worsening international security situation. Attendees were reportedly briefed by senior intelligence officials on intensifying threats from Russian hybrid warfare, including cyberattacks, sabotage, drone strikes, assassinations and grey-zone tactics. Macron warned that the threat has expanded from state and military targets and could now result in civilian casualties. 

Concurrently, Polish PM Donald Tusk warned citizens that there are difficult times ahead and said that Russia is planning further drone and missile attacks on NATO territory. Meanwhile, Britain’s BBC asks the question “War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?” Perhaps a more interesting question is at what point are grey zone attacks sufficient for NATO’s article 5 to be invoked? And what would actually happen if it was? 

The answer to that question suddenly seems less clear after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that he would not allow Slovakia to be pulled into a military conflict with Russia because of NATO’s collective defence clause. Such an ‘all the benefits, none of the costs’ approach does nothing to dispel American criticisms of a mentality of free-riding on the continent and again highlights the lack of political cohesion at the supranational level, even as Canada under Mark Carney seeks deeper trade and security ties with a European bloc that still hasn’t seen fit to fully ratify the CETA trade agreement.

Elsewhere in Europe the far-right AfD followed up its recent win in Saxony-Anhalt by recording a strong result in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania elections to finish with the highest vote share (38.2%), just ahead of the left-wing SPD (35.5%), while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU slumped to just 4.9% of the vote – its worst result in any state election since the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany. That figure is low enough to see the CDU ejected from the state parliament altogether. Merz called the result a “disaster”. 

While the far right was making ground, so was the far left. The Die Linke party won 25.7% of the vote to finish first in the Berlin elections. Nevertheless, a deal between other parties may still see it barred from capturing the Berlin mayoralty, which would likely stymie efforts to enact its program of nationalizing privately owned property in a bid to lower rents.

Despite the poor electoral results, Chancellor Merz is saying that he will stay on in an effort to deliver on a program of economic and security reforms that he said could be “the antidote to authoritarianism”.

US ten-year treasury yields closed 6.5bps higher on Friday while two-year yields rose by almost 8bps to see a modest bear flattening of the curve. That’s as Scott Bessent met with Chinese Vice Premier Hi Lifeng on Sunday ahead of a meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi in Washington later this week. Discussions reportedly centerd around trade, artificial intelligence and rare earths. 

Further discussions will be held later today to lay the groundwork for Trump-Xi summit which will now occur in the context of China having been cut off from cheap oil supplies from Venezuela and Iran, having energy supplies from Russia pressured by Ukrainian strikes, chased out of the Panama Canal, seeing its Arctic ambitions challenged by an increased US presence in Greenland, and watching sympathetic governments in South America fall like dominoes to US-aligned right wing challengers. On the latter, Polymarket now has Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of Lula by 62-41 for the October 5th Presidential election.

News over the weekend that Saudi Arabia had quit China’s mBridge digital currency program that US critics have said subverts the role of the US dollar in the global monetary system coincided with news that the US State Department had approved the sale of 48 F-35 fighter jets to the Kingdom. Saudi leaving the Chinese payments initiative may be just as strong a signal as the UAE’s decision to leave OPEC and OPEC+ about the US’ determination to play a much more aggressive brand of the Great Game to secure its own enduring interests. 

With Iranian President Pezeshkian set to arrive in New York for the UN General Assembly this week – and Donald Trump expressing willingness to meet with him – rumors of Gulf states preparing to sign on to the Abraham Accords continue to swirl.

Could we see a deal done? Or could all the news that the market has not seen fit to price suddenly show up in the price action?

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/21/2026 - 10:30

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Media TV Pool Won't Cover Trump As CNN, MS NOW, Politico To Sue Over White House Ban

CNN, MS NOW and Politico notified the federal government on Monday that they intend to sue the Trump administration to get their White House credentials back, three days after the president announced from Truth Social that he was barring all three from the building.

President Donald J. Trump makes an announcement on health care in the Oval Office at the White House in DC on Sept. 18. (Evan Vucci, Reuters)

The outlets have retained First Amendment lawyer Ted Boutrous, who beat the administration on this exact question in 2018, and are seeking emergency relief in federal district court in Washington.

The Ban

Trump announced the ban on Friday, writing that outlets "shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they're covering the President." He later added that "there's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stuff."

The order was enforced at the White House gates the next morning. On Saturday, journalists arriving to cover the administration were stopped by the Secret Service at the West Wing security checkpoints. CNN's Betsy Klein, MS NOW's Akayla Gardner and Politico's Cheyenne Haslett were turned away; an agent told Gardner her press pass had been deactivated.

By Monday, CNN was removed from pooled coverage duties - the rotating assignment under which one network's crew feeds video to every other outlet - and CNN and MS NOW were blocked from using their television equipment and camera positions on the grounds. 

On the pool itself: Fox News Washington bureau chief Bryan Boughton, who chairs the TV pool (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox rotate), emailed pool subscribers that there would be “no replacement pool put in place” after the White House blocked CNN from its assigned duties. The other major networks declined to fill in. Essentially collective action by the networks, including Fox.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 18, 2026

Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News senior White House correspondent and current White House Correspondents’ Association president, issued the WHCA statement standing “in defense of our colleagues at CNN, MS NOW, and Politico who are being singled out for doing their jobs.” She said the action violates the First Amendment, that protections “do not depend on whether the president likes a news organization’s coverage,” and called for immediate restoration of access. She also discussed it on Fox News Sunday.

The Filing

In a joint statement, the three outlets said: "Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting." They called the ban "a more direct assault on the First Amendment" than anything that preceded it, and "a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles."

All three said they would keep covering the administration either way. Politico global editor-in-chief Jonathan Greenberger told staff in a memo that the outlet would "vigorously defend our First Amendment rights."

What The Courts Have Already Said

The administration has lost this argument twice before.

In 2018 the White House pulled the hard pass of CNN's Jim Acosta after a hostile press conference. Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered it restored within days, finding the network likely to win on Fifth Amendment due process - the White House had given Acosta no notice and no chance to respond.

In 2025 the administration barred the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One after the wire service declined to adopt "Gulf of America." A district judge ordered full access restored. An appeals court then let the administration keep the AP out of small, restricted spaces, ruling only that it could not bar reporters from areas "generally open to the press," such as the briefing room.

Neither case went as far as this one. Acosta was one reporter and the AP kept its briefing-room seat. Three outlets barred from the entire complex is a larger question than any court has answered.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/21/2026 - 10:15

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Warner Bros, Paramount Jump After Settling Lawsuits With California And Other States

Update: (10:05am ET).

Well, that was fast: following a Friday leak that a settlement was imminent, moments ago, Bloomberg reported that Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Settlement talks came to fruition over the weekend after four states that had opposed terms of a deal outlined with California conceded. The settlement, which is expected to be announced later today, paves the way for one of the largest mergers in Hollywood history.

Lawyers for the states worked all night on the agreement, the person said. Four states — Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Minnesota — had been holdouts on a possible settlement, but ultimately concluded the expense of the legal battle was not justifiable without California at the helm, the person said.

The states that held out longer did succeed over the past week in securing independent editorial boards for CBS and CNN as part of the deal, the person said.

The terms, summarized below, are said to include a financial penalty if the company fails to make good on a promise to distribute 30 films per year in theaters.

If the final terms are approved, the agreement would spare Paramount from having to pay late fees to Warner Bros. of $7 million a day, which were to begin on Oct. 1.

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Earlier

Shares of Warner Bros. (WBD) are up 7% and Paramount Skydance (PSKY) gains 6% after the WSJ reported Friday that Paramount was in advanced settlement talks with the California AG Rob Bonta aimed at settling the California-led antitrust lawsuit that would block the company's proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

According to the report the two sides met over the weekend and discussed several potential concessions including

• $1.5bn investment by Paramount for production in California
• Maintain both studio lots & stay in California
• Potential sale of cable channels and creation of a board to maintain CNN’s editorial independence
• Financial penalties for producing less than 30 films per year. 

Bonta, a consortium of 12 states, and the Writers Guild of America, sued to block Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. in July. Since then, the two sides have been locked in discussions to resolve the matter. The suing states fear further consolidation in the entertainment industry would reduce jobs and competition. Meanwhile, Paramount, led by CEO David Ellison, argues the combination will create a company large enough to successfully compete with the tech giants that have encroached on the entertainment industry.

The merger would bring the two eponymous Hollywood studios and under one roof, alongside the Paramount Plus and HBO Max streaming services and a slew of cable channels such as CNN, MTV, and TBS, among others.

One of the proposals in the negotiations includes establishing an oversight board to ensure CNN retains editorial independence. Other possibilities include the sale of certain cable channels, according to IBD

Another proposal would impose, according to Bloomberg, a $30 million fine on Paramount for each film that falls short of its previously pledged goal of releasing 30 movies per year in theaters. Ellison and Paramount originally made the pledge to get theater operators to support the merger. However, Bonta had been wary of Paramount's promise because he considered it difficult to enforce. The fine would seem to address that.

Under the terms of the discussions, Paramount would also be forced to sell its stake in the studio Miramax, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/21/2026 - 10:00

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Charles Spencer's sister died in August 1997 at 36 in a fatal high-speed car crash in Paris, spawning a slew of conspiracy theories.

Charles Spencer's sister died in August 1997 at 36 in a fatal high-speed car crash in Paris, spawning a slew of conspiracy theories.

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